Our Community Impact

Each year, we award high-impact grants to four greater-Austin area nonprofits in the following areas: community, education, health & well-being, and a catalyst grant.

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2016Family Grant Recipient:

Partnerships for Children

Project:

The Heart Gallery

Grant Award:

$94,000

Partnerships for Children provides critical resources to abused and neglected children in Central Texas who are in the care of Child Protective Services. The Heart Gallery is both a traveling portrait exhibit and outreach opportunity for individuals to learn more about children in the foster care system...

Partnerships for Children

Project:

The Heart Gallery

Partnerships for Children provides critical resources to abused and neglected children in Central Texas who are in the care of Child Protective Services. The Heart Gallery is both a traveling portrait exhibit and outreach opportunity for individuals to learn more about children in the foster care system and the adoption process. The Heart Gallery has a 60% success rate of getting harder to place children into permanent, loving homes. Before the establishment of Heart Galleries across the U.S. that number was less than one percent.

The Arc of the Capital Area

Project:

The Arc of the Arts Program

Grant Award:

$94,000

The Arc of the Capital Area (The Arc) each year empowers around 2,000 Central Texans with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD). The Arc helps families adapt to life with a child with a disability and assists maturing adults with disabilities in gaining skills needed to become independent. The Impact...

The Arc of the Capital Area

Project:

The Arc of the Arts Program

The Arc of the Capital Area (The Arc) each year empowers around 2,000 Central Texans with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD). The Arc helps families adapt to life with a child with a disability and assists maturing adults with disabilities in gaining skills needed to become independent. The Impact Austin grant will fund The Arc of the Arts, where 83 students with I/DD will participate in arts education and sell their finished work at art shows and at The Arc of the Arts studio.

TreeFolks

Project:

Blanco River Reforestation Project

Grant Award:

$94,000

TreeFolks will plant trees to restore the riparian forest on more than 1,000 residential properties in Hays County devastated by the 2015 floods. Many homeowners lost shelter and possessions and need assistance replanting their lands. Impact Austin funding will provide landowner consultation and planting of 385,000 trees on 800 acres along the Blanco...

TreeFolks

Project:

Blanco River Reforestation Project

TreeFolks will plant trees to restore the riparian forest on more than 1,000 residential properties in Hays County devastated by the 2015 floods. Many homeowners lost shelter and possessions and need assistance replanting their lands. Impact Austin funding will provide landowner consultation and planting of 385,000 trees on 800 acres along the Blanco River. The project will improve the ecosystem and provide healthy growth for future protection against flood damage.

LifeWorks

Project:

Funding Sustainability

Grant Award:

$50,000

Project: Funding Sustainability

LifeWorks will use the Catalyst Grant to help solve a critical funding and sustainability issue for their mental health services. They are looking to transition or hybridize their current grants-based funding model to maximize Medicaid and insurance billing potential due to the recent changes...

LifeWorks

Project:

Funding Sustainability

Project: Funding Sustainability

LifeWorks will use the Catalyst Grant to help solve a critical funding and sustainability issue for their mental health services. They are looking to transition or hybridize their current grants-based funding model to maximize Medicaid and insurance billing potential due to the recent changes in health insurance.

Texas Advocacy Project

Project:

Technology Upgrade

Grant Award:

$50,000

Established in 1982 with a vision that no child should ever see one parent harm the other, Texas Advocacy Project’s (the Project) services affect the lives of thousands of Texans each year. The Project offers a range of legal and advocacy services proven to break the cycle of...

Texas Advocacy Project

Project:

Technology Upgrade

Established in 1982 with a vision that no child should ever see one parent harm the other, Texas Advocacy Project’s (the Project) services affect the lives of thousands of Texans each year. The Project offers a range of legal and advocacy services proven to break the cycle of violence. In 2014, they provided legal services in 4,066 cases, serving 9,718 Texans. The Project plans to use the inaugural Impact Austin Catalyst Grant to upgrade its technology platform. The organization will purchase laptops and cloud-based software allowing their legal staff to remain efficient even when their duties take them away from the office. This grant will expand The Project’s capacity to handle and close more cases each year and improve the lives of the community it serves.

If you’re new to Impact Austin, or you’ve simply never served on a Grant Review Committee (GRC), you might be wondering if participating this year is right for YOU. Maybe so! Here are some points to consider.